Bet Punishment

"Yeah..." She says frowning, "I have to do this."

He puts his nose against her and whispers, "Have to do what?"

She jumps off his lap and begins to run away. "I have to do this!" She yells, hiding from him.

He runs after her, stopping the timer. "Why are you hiding?"

"Because I hate pop that much."

"Well...fine then..." He puts the music on pause. "Will you come out now?"

"You promise I can stop being torture?"

"For now...You still have...fifty minutes left of it, but we can continue that later. Now come out, I'm starting to feel lonely."

Ayoko walks back into the living room, smiling and says, "Now what?"

He walks over to her and wraps his arms around her waist. "Whatever you want..."

"No, today you pick." She says, looking at him innocently.

"I don't know what is it about that look...But...for some reason...I love it..." He leans in and kisses her.

She kisses him back, wrapping arms around his waist.

He keeps kissing, holding himself against her.

She pulls away to take a breath and says, "You are just plain amazing...."

"I know. And you are too...no matter what you may think, you are amazing."

She blushes lightly and kisses him passionately.

He returns with kiss with just as much passion. His hands start to go up her body, running his hands through her hair.

She pulls away and smiles at him, a tear running down her cheek.

He brushes the tear away and he asks, "What's wrong?"

"I'm just so happy right now.... You don't know how bad the past year as been for me."

"Well, you can tell me. I'm always here for you." He brushes a strand of hair out of her eyes.

"I've been so lonely.... Hiding my true feelings under a smile scared to bother anyone with my problems." She begins to cry on his shirt, unaware of anything else.

He wraps his arms around her so that he's hugging her instead. "I...I had no idea Ayoko...I didn't know anything about that..." A tear rolls down his cheek, feeling really bad for her. "To be honest...I felt the same way with my brother for a while...that smile I wore all the time, all the girls I would go out with...it was all to cover up how lonely I was on the inside...what I would do to release all that emotion was play music...the only other passion I have instead of the heat of battle..."

She looks up at him and smiles weakly "But at least we have each other now..."